Tho the instance is particular to gnulib, it is of a more general
interest, too.
On 12/9/20 6:21 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
This conversation should happen on the Gnulib mailing list; both
git-version-gen and maint.mk are maintained there. I have no
particular opinion about whether it is appropriate to use dot-files
for this purpose.
(Context that got trimmed off the top: Bob is concerned about the
files named ".prev-version", ".version", and ".tarball-version" in the
autoconf 2.70 release tarball.)
